can anyone please explain "Slope" i don't get it !

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anonymous · Answer

rise over run is the easiest way to think about slope

anonymous · Answer

your y axis is the rise, and the x axis is the run.

anonymous · Answer

when you have a negative slope, that means that EITHER the numerator OR the denominator is negative, but not both.

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

slope is used to describe how steep/shallow a line is and it also describe how fast a variable changes over time

precal · Answer

Think about going skiing.  Going down is a negative slope, Going up is positive slope,
horizotal line is a zero slope and a vertical line is undefined (impossible to ski on)
Read graph of lines left to right

anonymous · Answer

If in point-slope form y=mx+b, the two parameters (point and slope) such that b= Y intercept and m= "slope".  I always think of the point as the "starting point" on the graph, which always falls on the y axis.  From the starting point I interpret the slope as rise over run, in that, I always think of m as a fraction.

precal · Answer

One way to remember it is  y=mx+b
b is the point where you begin the graph (aka y-intercept)
m is how you move (aka slope or  rise over run)

phi · Answer

This might help. http://www.khanacademy.org/video/slope-of-a-line?playlist=Algebra+I+Worked+Examples